May 12th, 2008
Google releases Reader BETA for iPhone
Google Reader is one of the most active projects at Google as far as adding new features and creating interfaces that work well on other devices. They even have Google Reader designed specifically for the Wii. Now they have released a brand new interface for the iPhone for us to play with.
Reader already has a pretty good interface for the iPhone — actually, I’d say the old one is on par with the new one, if not better in some ways. I understand that the new one is a beta, and that’s why I’m not going to rag on it too hard here. The only think I really don’t like is when you click “Feeds”, then select a tag, you are taken to a list of blogs associated with that tag rather than a list of articles to read. I’m not sure if I’m weird, but I like to read all the aggregated articles for a certain tag — not on an individual blog basis.
Overall though, it’s great to see that Google isn’t afraid to work on products that are already great. To get to the new interface in your iPhone or iPod Touch, go to http://www.google.com/reader/i/. What do you think? Do you like the new interface?
Garett Rogers is employed as a programmer for iQmetrix, which specializes in retail management software for the wireless industry. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
